Marked for Vadzim Palitsevich
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Uneasy
Market4 Oct 2027
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Smorgon, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad4 Oct 2027
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Smorgon will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad4 Oct 2027
Luis Chávez falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Back issues
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Crisis
Match25 Sep 2027
10 matches without a win for Smorgon
The run now stands at 10, and the questions being asked around Smorgon are no longer polite ones.
Squad27 Sep 2027
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Smorgon will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad27 Sep 2027
Daniil Perov in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Smorgon this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad27 Sep 2027
Matvey Dukso falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Match25 Sep 2027
A bad afternoon for Smorgon against Minsk
0‑2 to Minsk, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad27 Sep 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Georgi Varbanov, and the manager let it.
In brief
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Player ratings
Nobody could get near Luis Chávez
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Boardroom
The Smorgon board put their names to it
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Player ratings20 Sep 2027
Successful dribbles: 40. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match18 Sep 2027
No end in sight to Smorgon's wait for a win
9 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Smorgon has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad20 Sep 2027
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Smorgon will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad20 Sep 2027
Daniil Perov was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad20 Sep 2027
Luis Chávez falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Match18 Sep 2027
1‑2 to Arsenal Dzerzhinsk, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad13 Sep 2027
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Smorgon will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market13 Sep 2027
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Market13 Sep 2027
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Evgeniy Kasevich will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Smorgon the goodbyes have quietly begun.